---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1844 to 1845.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 5
number: 18
published: 1844-10-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“A Word of Consolation,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 18 (October 1, 1844): 670."
printed_title: A WORD OF CONSOLATION.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-10-01_5_18
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n18.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-10-01_5_18
start_page: 670
end_page: 670
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1844 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-10-01_5_18
  publication_year: 1844
---

# A Word of Consolation

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Owing to the continued illness of some of our hands in the office, this number of the paper has been unavoidably delayed beyond the usual time of publication. In future we hope this will not be the case, but be overcome by punctuality which is always considered, with prompt pay, the life of business.

The October conference minutes, which are very interesting, will occupy a great portion of the next number, and if the Spirit of the Lord animates the souls of his brethren abroad with a pure desire for the spread and benefit of the kingdom of our Savior, as it does ours, there will certainly be a greater degree of unity, joy, peace and satisfaction among the Latter Day Saints than there has been. Polished steel keeps brightest by constant use; so brethren be active, prayrful [prayerful] and charitable, and your light will so shine that others can see as well as you.

DIED-In Brownstown, Michigan, on the 20th of August, last, Elder Joshua R. G. Phelps, aged 31 years.

He was on a mission to Canada, and died in the possession of the latter day faith and knowledge, which the world neither gives nor takes away. His sudden death in the midst of life and usefulness, brings to mind a verse of his, written upon an infant, some years since:-

"What is it comes and stops the breath,

And takes away the spirit?

It is the power of God, by death,

And all the world do fear it."

But the house where the good man meets his fate

Is honor'd more than the haunts of wicked men,

Therefore, 'Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord!'

For when the Lord comes they shall come with him.

Sept. 20th, l844.